"Is there Mount Tai at your feet?"

"I'm not Taishan, I'm saying that Ba Lisu will not fight here! Even at this time, someone from the Jin Kingdom who can make the decision should have contacted him behind him." Li Yanxian tried his best to ignore the other party's sarcasm, and his words were quite interesting. There was something decisive about it. "Moreover, King Han must have had a military flaw similar to mine. Either he was careless or underestimated the enemy. Anyway, he ignored it!"

Han Shizhong looked at the other party blankly, confirming the other party's seriousness before facing each other in the seat: "Why do you say that Ba Lisu will not fight here?"

"The reason couldn't be simpler." Li Yanxian sighed. "Prince Han...Here at Tieling Pass, although we have some logistical troubles due to the sudden arrival of Manager Ma and the obstruction of the Shaanzhou river, we can't escape the logistics. Do we need to start from Taiyuan? That's five hundred miles away... Even if it's a wide road, how can it be easier than ours?"

Han Shizhong was silent for a moment, but still shook his head: "How do we know about their logistics? The war is so rushed that no one knows who is who. It is impossible to say that they have a large warehouse in Linfen!"

Having said that, Han Shizhong has been slightly shaken, because he knows that even if the Jin army in the north may have no worries about logistics, what about the southeast?

Even if the Jin army has a large warehouse in Mengzhou on the other side of Zhiguanxing, there is still a narrow road of 180 miles from Zhiguanxing. Now the Jin army in the direction of Longde Mansion is blocked in Zhiguanxing.

How to arrange the logistics for 40,000 people?

Of course, there is no way out. As long as the Jin army decides to attack, the entire Jin army from Longde Mansion will come over from Mengzhou.

But doing so is undoubtedly a desperate move, otherwise it will be death.

However, just when Han Shizhong thought that the other party was talking about Zhi Guanxing and Longde Mansion, unexpectedly, Li Yanxian nodded directly: "What the prince said is that everyone started the war in a hurry. How do we know the Jurchens' logistics situation?

?It is expected that the enemy will be lenient."

Han Shizhong was surprised for a moment.

But immediately, Li Yanxian's next words silenced Han Shizhong: "So, why did the Jin Army think that they would take advantage of the stalemate here? It was only in the past two days that we realized that the Shaanzhou river restricted logistics. They

How to know?”

When the wind blew, Han Shizhong was silent for a while, but Li Yanxian also treated him calmly.

While the two sides were in a stalemate, he heard several generals walking up to him while talking and laughing. However, Han Liangchen couldn't bear it at all and turned back to look at Wang Shixiong: "Block the stairs and let them wait below."

Wang Shixiong did not dare to neglect and left in a hurry.

When it became quiet again and the only sound was the wind after closing the door, Han Shizhong slowly spoke: "What Taishan said makes sense."

Li Yanxian was extremely speechless... This guy was actually more petty than himself!

But this is not the time to worry about this.

On the other side, Han Shizhong immediately asked again: "If that's the case, it's indeed a bit weird to pull away from the speed system... maybe as you said, there is a loophole in us that he has peeked into."

"There can only be one loophole." Li Yanxian blurted out. "For us, the advantage of the Jin Kingdom has always been the cavalry... Tieling Pass has Camel Collar on the left and Jiangshan Mountain on the right. It spans more than two hundred miles and is naturally divided...

He came around from Jiangshan Mountain before, making me unable to defend myself for a moment, but now he must be involved in the front and cover the people behind him, just waiting for the reinforcements to arrive from behind, and he will form an army of ten thousand cavalry from the west and repeat his old tricks!"

"Taishan thinks I am you?" Han Shizhong became disdainful again when he heard this. "Before I came, Wang Sheng left 20,000 troops in Hedong City to lock the city, and another 8,000 troops were deployed in various places.

Li Qiong also took over Anyi City, so they naturally went to block the gaps to the west of us early... Those passages, as long as they are guarded and a little involved, so as not to be penetrated by the Jin, they are useless. "

This time it was Li Yanxian's turn to feel uneasy: "Having said that, the Jin people also have this plan...Roughly speaking, since Bali Su doesn't know that our logistics are suffering, there is no one to invest ten thousand dollars in such a mountainous area.

The courage of an army of ten thousand to fight decisively... He didn’t dare to rush to a decisive battle, but he still stationed four ten thousand households here to confront us, why on earth?”

"Who knows?" Han Shizhong sneered at him. "I can't say I'm like you. Because I lost my army before and was worried about being reprimanded by the Jurchen King behind me, so I was thinking wildly and worried that we could break through the mountains and cut off Zhiguanxing... I didn't dare to retreat easily."

Li Yanxian wanted to bite his nails again, but he held back this time: "Prince Han, I have already confessed my guilt to the public, and the government will decide how to deal with it in the next two days..."

"The enemy is ahead, and tens of thousands of your Li family troops are there. How can the officials deal with you on the battlefield?" Han Shizhong kept sneering. "Really let Xianggong Lu come and kill you?"

Li Yanxian suppressed his anger and said with all his strength: "Your Majesty, who is guarding the road between Luotuoling and Jishan in the west?"

"Xu Shi'an, the most reliable member of the imperial camp's left army, is stationed in Wanquan County with his troops." Han Shizhong answered proudly.

"North of Sanyi Mountain (later Gushan), east of Fanjiayu..."

"Chen Jue led his subordinates to camp there, and they happened to be at odds with Xu Shi'an."

"There is a military trail at the west end..."

"Most of Dong Min's subordinates, commander of the imperial camp's left army, were under Hedong City, but he himself led a thousand people to block the Hubi Fort at the crossing." Han Shizhong was still safe. "I had been to that place when I was young, and it was in a dangerous location.

, there is another old castle with more than a thousand people!”

Li Yanxian looked a little uneasy, but he still did not give up: "Where is the Fenshui River entering the mouth of the Yellow River?"

"You mean Longmen (north bank of Fen River)?" Han Shizhong asked with a frown.

"I mean Ronghe River (south bank of Fen River, due north of Hedong City)." Li Yanxian faced him seriously. "Has the prince specifically arranged a garrison and generals to command the Ronghe River?"

Han Shizhong shook his head in response, but remained confident: "There must be some garrison troops, but I really haven't specially arranged any generals, or specially reserved any to form a large organic force."

"Why?" Li Yanxian was dumbfounded. "Hedong City has not been captured yet. What if the Jin army joins ten thousand cavalry and goes down the Fen River to get there and join forces with Wen Dunsizhong inside and outside?"

Han Shizhong was obviously a little less energetic, but he still shook his head and said: "Li Jiedu is overthinking. I am not careless or ignorant, but I made an agreement with Wu Da before coming... Although he said that he would wait for the party to assist the troops,

There is no intention of a full-scale march, but as promised, an army will be sent to cross the Dragon Gate and block the Fen River for me... You are overthinking."

Li Yanxian nodded, and then asked seriously: "So, the prince asked Wu Jiedu to send an army to cross the Dragon Gate and block the north bank of the Fen River? Didn't he personally send his troops to block the south bank of the Fen River?"

"Li Jiedu is overthinking." Han Shizhong finally became a little uneasy. "If we see the Jin army coming from the south bank, will the troops and horses sent by Wu Da still be able to stay on the north bank?"

Li Yanxian nodded at him again: "May I ask Prince Han, are that Wu Da and his subordinates all human beings?"

Han Shizhong's expression suddenly changed.

After a moment, he wanted to turn around and call Wang Shixiong, but when the words came to his lips, he stood up himself, and then hurriedly went down holding the jade belt around his waist.

"Prince..." Li Yanxian just sat on the chair from the beginning to the end. "If Da Huang stays, then Wang Shixiong will stay too. Just let him sit with me."

Han Shizhong nodded and left without saying a word.

On that day, the Prince of Yan'an County hurriedly ordered the 3,000-strong Wei army to be carried on his back, plus the 3,000-strong side army to defeat. He also gathered the war horses of Li Yanxian's army, and a total of 6,000 people were all on horseback. After a little preparation, they started from Guannan along the

The camel leader headed west.

Arrive in Wanquan in the evening.

Arrive at Hubi Fort at noon the next day.

Everything is fine.

Another day passed, that is, on October 12th, when King Han bypassed the mountains on the south side of Fenshui River, passed by the north of Hedong City and ignored it, and when he arrived at Ronghe River on the south bank of Fenshui Port, he found that

There was nothing wrong here. There were still 500 subordinates left by Chen Jue in Ronghe... This made Han Shizhong breath a sigh of relief and was almost ready to go back and scold Li Yanxian.

However, just to be on the safe side, he still sent out sentry riders to investigate upstream along the river.

Then I learned a somewhat strange news that night - about yesterday, a Song army crossed the Fen River from the north bank and hurriedly set up a fort on the south bank road.

To be honest, Han Shizhong was a little confused.

First of all, if the troops were divided purely out of a defensive mentality, why did this army come and set up bases now?

Secondly, if the Jurchens really came from here as Li Yanxian judged, they should have arrived in the past few days. This would explain why the Song army crossed the river to set up bases at this time... But why did this army cross the river before

Why don't I send someone to Ronghe to inform the defenders so that Wang Sheng, Chen Jue and others can take precautions?

But no matter what happened, knowing the enemy was easy, Han Shizhong couldn't ignore this matter now. Although he was extremely confused, he still got up all night to carry out the Wei army and destroy the enemy. He didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he hurried north

We moved in for support and arrived at the Song Army camp in the morning.

At this time, Marshal Han, who had seen the leader of the Song army with his own eyes, learned two more pieces of news.

First of all, the Jin Army is really coming, and it will be here soon.

Secondly, this Song army with only 2,000 people, whose leader is called Zhang Heng, is not a subordinate of Wu Jie... but the Taihang Rebel Army. Specifically, it was the Taihang Rebel Army that Ma Kuo separated from Guji Mountain (Lüliang Mountain) many years ago, specifically to

Those who were in contact with Wu Jie, even before the imperial camp's left army crossed the river, had contact with this person due to changes in the defense zone.

"Zhang Heng, right? I've seen your name on the document." The weather was cold. Han Shizhong sat in the extremely simple camp with his hands folded. After looking around, his face was solemn, and his heart was blankly facing the person in front of him.

Zhang Tongzhi, who couldn't even tell where his family belonged, asked, "You came here yesterday, but you just put up a fence and didn't even have time to put up a tent?"

"My King Yingming." Zhang Heng, who is almost fifty years old this year, was obviously a little flustered and cowered in front of Han Shizhong, and he may not even have been able to react to the sudden arrival of the message from the other party.

"Is the Golden Army coming soon?"

"The king is wise."

"how many people?"

"The two ten thousand households that were originally in Shizhou and Xianzhou were all cavalry, but the two ten thousand households didn't dare to come together, so they only had a little more than ten thousand."

"Who takes the lead?"

"Crying man, Sa Li drinks..."

"No surprise." Han Shizhong nodded and suddenly asked, "How did you know that the Jin Army was coming?"

"My family has many acquaintances in Taiyuan."

"I remembered, there is such a statement, the officials mentioned it... By the way, did Wu Jie send someone to Longmen?"

"So that your Majesty will know that Wu Jiedu sent the commander Ma Xizhong to pass through Longmen, and I am the commander of Ma Xizhong who met there." Zhang Heng looked at each other, obviously shrinking. "I told him the day before yesterday when I saw him.

There was news from Taiyuan that Sa Lihe was leading 10,000 cavalrymen from the south of Fen River to rescue Hedong... After hearing this, he asked me to guard Longmen and went back directly across the river."

"..."

"..."

Moreover, it took the Prince of Yan'an County a while to digest the news. A moment ago, there was only one sentence buzzing in his ears - Are that Wu Da and his subordinates human beings?
To be continued...